This was Browne’s 4th album. It was not as lighthearted as his previous works since his wife had committed suicide while he was writing this. It took a bitter turn, “Say a prayer for the pretender,” he sings, “who stared out so young and strong, only to surrender.”The man who had delved so deeply into life’s abyss on his earlier albums was in search of escape this time around.
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